Fox News host Jesse Watters and Huffington Post Washington Bureau Chief Ryan Grim scuffled Saturday evening at a post-White House Correspondents Dinner party in Washington, including real partisan fisticuffs in the mostly chummy and assertively nonpartian evening.
Grim and Watters were both attending an afterparty hosted by MNSBC at the U.S. Institute of Peace where hundreds of journalists and celebrities gathered after the annual dinner at the Washington Hilton.
Grim reportedly noticed Watters and approached him about an ambush interview he conducted in 2009 that featured Grim’s colleague, Amanda Terkel. Terkel wrote an article about the interview for the left-leaning website Think Progress. She wrote that she was “followed, harassed, and ambushed by Bill O’Reilly’s producer.”
The two began throwing punches shortly after Grim took out his camera phone to film Watters in the same fashion that the Fox News personality had previously filmed Terkel.
The men were reportedly separated from each other by Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer, of all people.
Grim confirmed the incident in an email to the Washington Examiner.
“I assume Jesse is retiring from the ambush business since he’s shown he doesn’t like it,” Grim said.
He said he got in his phone back from Watters, who grabbed it during the altercation.
Grim took another jab at Watters in a statement he later provided to the Washington Post.
“Ambush guy can’t take getting ambushed,” he said. “Maybe he should think about his life choices.”
